Drawers-supporter.



L. W. BROWN.

DRAWERS SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 5, I915.

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LEWIS W. BROWN, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

DRAWERS-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 19, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS W. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drawers-Supporters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the .art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention is a drawers supporter of improved construction adapted to be attached to and detached from suspenders or braces of the usual and ordinary form, and

'to engage with the tape or other similar loops usually and ordinarily found upon the waist-bands of drawers.

The invention consists in certain features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of an end of a suspender with the improved supporter attached thereto.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the supporter detached from the suspender and showing the supporting loop open.

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view showing the manner of applying the supporter to the runner of the suspender.

Fig. 4: is a sectional View showing one manner of attaching the metal strip to the webbing.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The improved supporter which forms the subject-matter of this application is adapted to be operated in conjunction with a suspender S of the usual and ordinary type embodying a runner whose cross bar 9 carries an upper loop 10 for engaging the Web of the suspender and a second and lower loop 11 engaging the cast-ofi' 12, all in the usual and ordinary manner.

The supporter comprises a metal strip 13 bent back upon itself into a hook 1.4: having a bill 15 lying adjacent the main part of the metal strip. To this metal strip a webbing or other like material 16 is attached in any approved manner as by the rivets or eyelets 17 and is provided with fastening members of the type ordinarily known as glove fasteners, one member at 18, preferably the male member, being located adjacent the end of the webbing with one or more of the coacting or female members 19 spaced from the end of the webbing so that when the webbing is folded over as shown at Figs. 1 and 2, the member 18 may engage either or any of the members 19 to provide an adjust ment for variation of the length of the supporting .member. When folded over as shown at Fig. 1, the loop 20 of the webbing will engage through the usual and ordinary loops of the drawers D shown at 21 in Fig. 1, whereby the drawers are supported until the fastening members are released or disengaged to release the drawer loop 21 from the loop 20 of the web.

The device is applied to almbst any usual and ordinary type of suspender S by inserting the bend 1 1 of the metal strip 13 between the web of the suspender and the bar 9 as shown at Fig. 3. The metal strip is then drawn backward to the position shown at Fig. 1 whereby the hook is passed around the bar 9 and its bill between said bar and the loop 11, and when the strip is borne downward said bill lies at the rear of the castof'f or throw-off 12 and between such throw-off and the body of the strip 13 which prevents it from drawing or straightening out under the strain exerted upon it by the weight of the drawers.

Instead of employing an uncovered metal strip and securing it to the web as shown at Figs. 1, 2 and 3, it is found desirable at times to inclose the metal strip as shown at 22 in a tubular fabric 23 as shown at Fig. 1, and the metal strip and fabric then bent over as shown at such figure, whereby the metal strip is retained within the tubular fabric without the necessity of any rivets, eyelets or other fastening means. It is used and operated exactly as shown at Figs. 1, 2 and 3 by being inserted through the supporting loop or runner of the suspender and is finished and completed by the loop 20 and fastening members 18 and 19 as shown at Figs. 1 and 2.

It is apparent that the article as shown at Fig. 2 may be applied to and removed from the suspender at will, and may be sold as a wholly independent and separate article of merchandise, useful at the caprice of the purchaser.

Several advantageous results flow from the specific use of the device as above described. The body 13 of the strip stands between the bill 15 and the wearers shirt so that the latter is'not liable to be cut or torn The double'bendmade and below'it over the loop 11 permits the use not suflicient (or even ifthey V by such bill. The cast-off 12 overlies the bill sothat his Vest is not cut or torn thereby,

13 at a different point 'to lncrease or decrease the length of the bill 15 and to bring the bend 14 higher or lower on the strip.

The combination with the runner of a suspender comprising three parallel bars and two loops, of a webbing secured to the upper at 14 over the bar 9' bar, a east-ofi secured to the lower bar, and a metallic strip depending from the middle bar, parallel with the cast-off, and provided at its upper end with an overlapping portion deflected over the upper end of the cast-ofi', passing around the middle bar, thence through the loop below said bar, the end of the overlapping portion being disposed between the strip proper and the cast-off, and the intermediate portion of the overlapping member being retained by the lower bar and said cast-01f.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEWIS W. BROWN.

WVitnesses:

L. L. MonRELL, RoBT. T. LANG.

' Copies ofv this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

